# How to display role names only

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-role-names-only/161361
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security
**Created:** [December 18, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-role-names-only/161361 "2018-12-18T15:36:00Z")
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### Author: ![prabhakar\_talari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prabhakar_talari/32/46469_2.png) [@prabhakar\_talari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prabhakar_talari)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-role-names-only/161361/1 "2018-12-18T15:36:00Z")

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Hi All,

Could any one suggest me best command to get list of roles, i am using command (GET \_xpack/security/role) but it is giving the result in JSON format, but i would like to display only role names

thanks in advance

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### Author: ![ikakavas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ikakavas/32/34430_2.png) [@ikakavas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ikakavas)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 3:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-role-names-only/161361/2 "2018-12-19T15:54:24Z")

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Hello ,

There is no way to do what you want with the [Get roles API](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/security-api-get-role.html). You can process the result on the client side though and do the filtering you want, by using tools such as [`jq`](https://stedolan.github.io/jq/)

For example, this

```auto
curl -X GET -u youruser:yourpassword http://yourserver:9200/_xpack/security/role | jq 'keys | .[]'

```

will print the names of the roles that are defined in your native roles store.

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### Author: ![prabhakar\_talari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prabhakar_talari/32/46469_2.png) [@prabhakar\_talari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/prabhakar_talari)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-role-names-only/161361/3 "2018-12-20T08:33:48Z")

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Thank you. It worked as expected !

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 17, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-display-role-names-only/161361/4 "2019-01-17T08:33:58Z")

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